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42 pages. 6 3/4"w x 9 1/2"h. Stain on cover and tape on interior page. Printed in purple ink. No date of publication shown, probably from the 1950's. Appears to be excerpts from Oahspe ("Oahspe: A New Bible is a book published in 1882, purporting to contain "new revelations" from "...the Embassadors of the angel hosts of heaven prepared and revealed unto man in the name of Jehovih..."It was produced by an American dentist, John Ballou Newbrough (1828-1891), who reported it to have been written by automatic writing, making it one of a number of 19th-century spiritualist works attributed to that practice. Oahspe defines adherents of the disciplines expounded in Oahspe as "Faithists"."[Wikipedia]). Scarce.
Fine Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Ottoman script and transcription into Latin letters. 16, [2] p. 1 b/w portrait of Samli Iskender. Leblebici Hor Hor [Aga] opereti. Chamli Isquender.= Kudmânizade Samli Iskender. Text by Takvor Nalyan. Not in Özege for this edition. Leblebici Horhor (Horhor the Chickpea Seller) is an 1875 Turkish-language operetta by the Ottoman-Armenian composer Dikran Tchouhadjian. Leblebici Horhor is often claimed as the first original Turkish operetta, though Tchouhadjian's Arif'in Hilesi (Arif's Trick) was at least year earlier - it is reported in 1874. Tigran Tchoukhajian was an Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire. He is considered the first opera composer in Turkish history.
256 p. + Frontis Map. Illustrated with numerous drawings. Light age stain. Lightly XLib. 230 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, decorated in black and lettered in gilt gold. Corners worn with small loss. Hinge on front board slightly cracked. Binding rubbed and worn. First Edition. Very good copy. W12
pp. x, 500. LACKS pages 497/8. Several other leaves have slight loss. A few signatures defective without loss. Age stained. XLib bookplate of the Library Company of Philadelphia printed by Zachariah Poulson. 4to. Original full leather binding, very worn and shedding. Should be rebound and restored. First edition. A valuable description of the Rhine valley during the spreading disorder caused by the French Revolution. Allibone 1721. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/5
Tratta dall'edizione del "Cartes Gènerales de toutes les parties du Monde" curata da Pierre Mariette, edita nel 1663. Sanson era il più famoso cartografo francese della storia moderna, cosmografo al servizio di Luigi XIV, re di Francia; dotò le sue mappe delle più recenti informazioni geografiche e delle incisioni più belle e acute del periodo. Il "Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde" rappresenta il più importante prodotto della cartografia commerciale francese del diciassettesimo secolo.Le mappe furono compilate a partire dal 1630 e l'atlante edito per la prima volta nel 1654, stampato da Pierre Mariette. Map taken from "Cartes Gènerales de toutes les parties du Monde" by Sanson.The maps were compiled by Nicolas Sanson who published his atlas in 1654, with 100 maps, and printed by Pierre Mariette; they were issued progressively from 1630. Sanson was the most noted French cartographer in modern history. Mapmaker to Louis XIV, King of France, Sanson endowed his maps with the most recent geographical information as well as the finest and sharpest engraving of the period. His "Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde" was the most important single product of French commercial cartography of the seventeenth century.Copperplate, good condition.
32 pages. Features: Profitable Electric Service (conclusion) - the Layout of the Wilson Electric Service; Undercutting Mica on Armature Commutators; Correct Methods of Brake Relining - how to insure a satisfactory job; Wiring Diagrams - International Trucks; Shop and Showroom; Studebaker introduces Free Wheeling Principle - article with photos; Short Cuts for Handy Mechanics; Modern Equipment - Atlas makes new super service equipment; Modern Car Loading; Complete Mechanical Details of the American Austin; Passenger Car Prices F.O.B. Vancouver; Truck Prices F.O.B. Vancouver; Passenger Car Specifications for Engine, Pistons, Rings, Rods, Valves, Lubrication, Cooling, Clutch, Axles, Brakes, Steering, Springs, Crankshaft Bearings, Crankshaft Bearings, Camshaft, Electrical, Fuel; Photo of the Vernon Garage; Photo of the Beausejour Auto and Marine Shop; Nice Canada Cement Concrete ad inside back cover includes photos of the Fleet St. retaining wall near John St., Toronto and two other Toronto structures; Great vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photos of the destruction wrought by Swansea's three-night blitz, including bad damage to another London hospital; Photo of downed German bomber in southwest England; Photo-illustrated text of a Canadian broadcast by Lord Beaverbrook entitled "The Pathway of the Atlantic; Photo of Sir John Dill during a visit to the Aldershot command; Photo inside a Canadian auto factory - Canadian mechanical transport played a notable part in the big drive in the Western Desert; Photos of the German Hamburg-Amerika freighter Idarwald after being set ablaze by her crew after attempting to run the British blockade off Cuba; Five photos of Winston Churchill inspecting British Home Guard personnel; Great photos of the War in Libya; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows the port of Brest being bombed again; Polish sailors co-operating with the Royal Navy; Photo of a Pom Pom gun being reloaded by four sailors; Three photos of Australian Prime Minister R.G. Menzies - at Bengazi, in England, and at a southwest port; Photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Major-General R.J. Collins entitled "Progress in the Middle East"; Illustration by W. Grogman shows a British motor-torpedo boat shooting down a German bomber in the Channel; Inspection of a massive Irish coastal gun; Lord Gort is met in Ireland by Sir Henry R. Pownall; Commentary on the war this week; Four amazing photos of the castaways of Emira Island, where the Germans left 328 survivors of vessels they had sunk; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
52 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Pennsylvania's Mountain Types; The Man in the Tower; Grand Central Station - super 12-page photo-illustrated article; Via Burlington - Wartime Freight - climb to the black cusions in the caboose of First 67 and witness some real train handling; Car Retarders - They speed up switching by controlling cars from a central point; Pictorial Presentations - B&M transfer point, SP in the Siskyous, Old New York & Harlem locomotive, World's sharpest curve, NYNH&H, Western Pacific - Norfolk & Western; Lumber Railroad - The Michigan-California Lumber Company's 45-mile railroad northeast of Placerville - with photos of their aerial lumber ferry; Photos of the world's longest chute? - 3,000 foot drop to the South Fork, American River. Railroad Ups and Downs; They Look Alike - Forney and a Fairlie. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
Front cover photo of M. Eleutherios Venizelos - ex-Prime Minister of Greece and Head of the National Provisional Government. The Balkans and the Greek Imbroglio (conclusion). Full page photo showing Kaymakchalan after its capture from the Bulgarians, September 28th-29th, 1916. Marvels of the British Transport Service on the Western Front. Photo of Nissen huts, an invention which vastly reduced the hardships of the third winter campaign. Many photos of the many forms of transportation employed. Front cover secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Cover portrait of The late Major-General E.C. Ingouville-Williams. This issue devoted to the Roll of Honour 1916. Centerfold illustrations of trench scenes. Front cover secured by tape. Book
Front cover portrait of Colonel H.H. The Maharaja of Bikaner. The fight for the Dardanelles. The Great Wave of Loyalty and Imperial enthusiasm in India. Centerfold devoted to photos of Indian leaders and soldiers at work. Photos and illustrations: French soldiers in camp at Seddul Bahr; British encampment near the western entrance of the Dardanelles; Landing operations in the Dardanelles; Indian troops disembark; Many Asian dignitaries; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial brown cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-cases.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. 60, [1] p. In Ottoman script. r. 1340.= m. (AD.). 1924. Özege: 4806. Extremely rare. First Edition. Elvah-i Naksiye Kolleksiyonu. Memleketimizde nakslan-i ibtidallerine ve Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebinin tesisine dâir malûmat-i mecmuâ ve Istanbul Âsar-i Atika Müzesi'nde bulunan Elvah-i Naksiye'nin katalogunu samildir.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) In modern cloth. Cr. 8vo.. (19 x 13 cm). In Ottoman script. 82, [2] p. Hegira-Hijri: 1313 = Gregorian: 1897. Yusuf Ziya Bey was an Ottoman / Turkish statesman from Yozgat city who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He descended from Çapanoghuls (Çapanogullari principality in Anatolia) which was Yozgat city's deep-rooted dynasty. He wrote the impressions in verse he described in detail on the places he visited in the cities of Yozgat, Kirsehir, Kastamonu city, Küre Mountains and Inebolu etc. with their architectural monuments and important figures who lived in those places. Extremely rare. First Edtion. Printed in Adana city. Özege 10332.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive operational history of British field survey organisation, units and personnel on the Western Front. SCARCE.
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with black cloth covers with bright silver embossed flower representations on the cover, silver print at spine, but with a small rectangle cut out of the top of the half title page, apparently where a previous owner's name was. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear with a 1" tear at top spine. First edition of this scarce and invaluable work on the art of the subarctic Athapaskans in Western Canada and British Columbia from pre-Columbian period to present day, focusing on clothing ornamentation with elaborate beadwork on jackets, shoes, pants, dog blankets, wigs, bags, dresses, leathergoods of all kinds, and a sophisticated quill tradition. With many maps, b&w photos, some color. Heavily illustrated.
64 pages. Features: Navajo Tribal Fair at Window Rock, Arizona; E.B. Quigley - Painter of Horses; Bronc Breaking; Vet's Corner; Down the Straightaway; Quarter Racing at Centennial; Arab Blood in Today's Ponies; Jubilee Days in Laramie; Cow Cuttin'; That Record Pushing Sister - Little Sister W; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; The Stallion as a Stock Horse; It Could Happen to You; Western Paul Revere - Joe Rankin; Tips from Tyler. Nice color ad for Tem-Tex Arizona - Western shirts. Full-page Stetson ad on page 1. Blue Bell jeans ad on page 3. Circle Bar - A Ranch Quarter Horse dispersal sale ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map, tape marks on front free endpaper, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an SAS classic. In the war in North Africa, LRDG (Long Range Desert Group), forerunner of the SAS, won a reputation out of all proportion to its size and short existence. Lloyd Owen's classic account of Y2 Patrol is a key account. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.251.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 58 plates on 25, 9 coloured maps (2 folding), numerous illustrations and maps (many full-page and some coloured in outline) in the text and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline; original cloth gilt, badge blocked in gilt on upper board, roan back framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, joints rubbed as usual, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy. The deluxe binding of the standard account of the regiment's service in WWII. Includes list of pre-war camps, numerous personnel lists, honours & awards, and ROH. Scarce. Sutcliffe, p.240; White, p.174.
476 p. (Continuous pagination). Illustrated with 12 full page color plates and numerous engravings. Page 21 torn without loss. Age stain. Lacks rear fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Early inked ownership of Nelson Myers on first fly leaf. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Boards embossed in blind. Extremities worn with loss. Hardbound. Good. Rader 531; Howes B933; Six-Guns 313; Graff 466. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W4
48 p. + Two Large folding maps: "Western Oregon" & "Routes from Atantic Ports to Oregon". Inner wraps printed with advertisements for Oregon Central Railroad Company; Oregon and California Railroad Company; Kansas Pacific Railroad Company. 230 mm. Softcover. Original printed wraps, very slightly soiled. Title continues: "The State of Oregon Was Distinguished At the Centennial Exhibition By More Awards For the Excellence and Variety Of Its Products Than Comparatively Any Other State". Near fine. Rare immigration guide to the Northwest. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W12 Bag 1 x2
Seitengröße ca. 21 x 14 cm, Einbandgröße ca. 21,4 x 15,5 cm. 238 Bl. auf Innenfalz montiert, unbeschnittene Originalgröße Blaue Kartoneinbände mit montierten Titelschildchen als Deckel- und Rückentitel. Gut erhalten. Bemerkenswerte Sammlung zur Gestaltung von Abenteuerliteratur ("Groschenhefte"). Im 1, Band als Vortitel auf Falz montiert das Titelverzeichnis der ersten hundert Hefte.
2 vols., 4to. and 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and 14 folding maps (11 in pocket at end of second volume); original pictorial wrappers (first volume) and pictorial cloth (second volume), the second volume chafed at head and tail of backstrip, a very good, bright, clean set. 7 Armoured Division, the legendary 'Desert Rats', was one of the most renowned British fighting units of WWII. Formed in North Africa just before the commencement of hostilities, it served throughout the entire Desert campaign, ending the war in North-West Europe with the capture of Hamburg and Berlin. The first volume (compiled by Carver) covers the division's service from formation to entry into Tunis in May 1943; the second volume (with foreword by Montgomery and introduction by Lyne) takes the story from Sicily to Berlin. SCARCE AS A SET. Not recorded by Enser.
